Ever-present Sentence Examples

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  • While the Deans were pleased that Martha had confided in them about her gruesome discovery, her pending exit remained an ever-present pall that hung over the remainder of the evening like a chilly fog.

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  • It was on these byways that Dean opted to travel, rolling along the river with the down of cottonwoods filling the air like a winter snowstorm, past the occasional farm house, fields, and ever-present vista of mountains wrapping around him.

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  • The ever-present list and pencil were poised on the kitchen counter, as if ready for action.

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  • Fred O'Connor strolled into the kitchen a few moments later, all smiles, carrying his ever-present notebook.

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  • Fully alert, he listened, but heard only night noises, the ticking of the hall clock, a slight breeze, the ever-present furnace rumbling heat to the old building.

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  • Dean spent the afternoon busying himself with the chores of Bird Song, partially out of guilt for having dumped the morning duties on Fred and in part to take his mind off the ever-present feeling he'd caused long term or, heaven forbid, permanent damage to his seven-month marriage.

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  • His note pad was ever present and he spent a considerable amount of time on the phone.

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  • The most patient of the White God's brothers, Jule had a calming influence on those around him, including Xander, who felt his ever-present restlessness retreat some.

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  • The fifth and last book takes up the question of man's free will and God's foreknowledge, and, by an exposition of the nature of God, attempts to show that these doctrines are not subversive of each other; and the conclusion is drawn that God remains a foreknowing spectator of all events, and the ever-present eternity of his vision agrees with the future quality of our actions, dispensing rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked.

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  • He is chiefly occupied with the means whereby the unio mystica is to be attained, whereas Eckhart dwells on the union as an ever-present fact, and dilates on its metaphysical implications.

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  • It is only the theistic view of God as personal power - that is as free-wild ever present and ever active in the world, which leaves room for miracles.

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  • The Cid of romance, the Cid of a thousand battles, legends and dramas, the Cid as apotheosized in literature, the Cid invoked by good Spaniards in every national crisis, whose name is a perpetual and ever-present inspiration to Spanish patriotism, is a very different character from the historical Rodrigo Diaz - the freebooter, the rebel, the consorter with the infidels and the enemies of Spain.

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  • In consequence of this excess of births there is a struggle for existence and a survival of the fittest, and consequently an ever-present necessarily acting selection, which either maintains accurately the form of the species from generation to generation or leads to its modification in correspondence with changes in the surrounding circumstances which have relation to its fitness for success in the struggle for life.

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  • From the time when he was bidden to leave his country to enter the unknown land, Yahweh was ever present to encourage him to trust in the future when his posterity should possess the land, and so, in its bitterest hours, Israel could turn for consolation to the promises of the past which enshrined in Abraham its hopes for the future.

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  • Yahweh's ever-present kingship in Israel, which was the chief religious idea brought into prominence by the national revival, demanded a more continuous manifestation of His revealing spirit than was given either by the priestly lot or by the rise of occasional seers; and where could this be sought except among the prophets?

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  • So the practice of securing places for persons who have served the party, in however humble a capacity, has sprung from the maxim that in the strife of politics the spoils belong to the victors, and has furnished a motive of incomparable and ever-present activity ever since the administration (1829-1837) of President Andrew Jackson.

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  • No accessory glands or copulatory organs are ever present in Lamellibranchs.

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  • Of schools or colleges for the purposes of a higher education befitted to the sons of noblemen and the more wealthy merchants there are absolutely none; but the village school is an ever-present and very open spectacle to the passer-by.

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  • And of all this chastened dignity the archbishop was himself the ever-present, ever-inimitable model - in all that he did the perfect churchman, in all the high-bred noble, in all things, also, the author of Telemaque.

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  • But, if this ever-present consciousness often gives dignity and elevation to his narrative, it is also responsible for some of its defects.

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  • It was instituted primarily as a precaution against the ever-present danger of a helot revolt, and secondarily perhaps as a training for young Spartans, who were sent out by the ephors to keep watch on the helots and assassinate any who might appear dangerous.

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  • Added to these troubles was the ever-present Turkish peril, which became acute after the king, with insensate levity, arrested the Ottoman envoy Berham in 1521 and refused to unite with Suleiman in a league against the Habsburgs.

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  • Dart 34470 approaches Carfax corner last Saturday shaded from the spring sunshine by the ever present tall building in Oxford.

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  • They also had the ever-present giant jar of pickled eggs and turkey gizzards sitting proudly on the counter-top.

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  • Heavy security was meant to lower the ever-present danger of sectarian strife at a festival with a bloody history.

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  • I scrambled around to the other side of the island which faces the ever-present Mull.

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  • It was time to answer the ever-present siren 's call that radiated from Vince 's eyes.

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  • The ever-present media and paparazzi make it hard for a celebrity to keep her conception, pregnancy, or birth experience quiet.

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  • The ever-present paparazzi makes it difficult for pregnant celebs to keep their expected bundle of joy a private event.

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  • Although many feel that it is ridiculous that such an everyday event was made extraordinary (by way of the ever-present photogs), that's just the way it seems to be in today's celebrity-hungry world.

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  • Thanks in large part to the ever-present paparazzi, one can take a look at Jennifer Aniston in a bikini through the years!

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  • Assault on Precinct 13--Black over-the-knee boots are ever-present on this one!

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  • The points are encompassed by the ever present circle.

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  • Disco music was already popular, but the movie and accompanying album really turned disco into a full life-style for many music enthusiasts, complete with white leisure suits, sequined dresses and the ever-present glitter ball.

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  • Part of his appeal on the show is his ever-present conflict between trying to keep his professional clients happy and not completely ignoring his girlfriend.

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  • Although the medium is new and worldwide, this critical freedom, and its ever-present fragility, remains unchanged.

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  • While it was feasible, Quinn's equipment was cumbersome and there were the ever present problem of absolute quiet, not to mention the security issue.

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  • In 1834 he opened in Boston a school which became famous because of his original methods; his plan being to develop self-instruction on the basis of self-analysis, with an ever-present desire on his own part to stimulate the child's personality.

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